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Jackie Robinson
was the first African American to play sports professionally and played fro the Brooklyn Dodgers -
Rosa Parks refusing to move
Rosa parks was an African american women who refused to give her seat up to a white person and was arrested by the police -
bus boycott
a 1956 U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring that Montgomery's segregation laws on buses were unconstitutional. -
civil rights movement
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 authorized the prosecution for those who violated the right to vote for United States citizens. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 took the issue one step further and authorized federal law enforcement to make sure that citizens of all people groups, in all states, were allowed to vote. -
Martin Luther king JR
Martin Luther was a African American man who stood up and spoke up against racism and spoke his mind to the entire world using his famous ¨I have a dream¨ speech